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04/02 9.30 mi 04/07 2.00 mi 04/09 3.10 mi 04/13 1.00 mi 04/14 2.60 mi TOTAL 18.00 mi GOAL 45.00 mi 2016 Races: 02/21 – Disney Princess Half Marathon – 2:38:29 (included 16 stops to either take photos of something or have my photo taken with something) 04/02 – Philadelphia Hot Chocolate 15K – 1:44:22 15K PR 04/09 –…

I'm bummed, too. They look like really fun runs with some super sweet gear!

I would totally do it!... Edit: I just looked them up after reading @kristinegift 's post. They do kind of seem to suck on the charity front. Ugh. :disappointed:

Welcome, and congrats on your first half marathon!! :smile: I finished my first a couple months ago, though it was the third one I trained for (stupid injuries).

I tried spinning for the first time, yesterday. Let's just say it kicked my (now quite sore) butt. I did a quick mile on the treadmill directly after hoping it would shake out my jello legs. I think it helped, but I still don't expect to be able to walk well come this evening. I plan on doing a few miles this evening.…

haha Yes! I was up at 2:15am for that thing. I would like to note that I am NOT a morning person, and I'm pretty sure I didn't wake up until somewhere around mile 5-6. haha The ungodly starting time and the two-mile walk to the start line were both pretty not magical, but the walk was a nice warm up, I suppose.

@5BeautifulDays: I really hope your son gets better, soon, and I am 100% thinking of your friend. I hope she is able to treat it and pulls through the cancer with flying colors - it is such an awful, terrible, horrible disease.

I wasn't around all weekend, and I just skimmed through the last 90+ posts, but it looks like there were tons of races, PRs, and people pleased with their time/effort. Congrats to everyone!

The 5K I ran this past Saturday is always a tough one - the first .9 miles is a gradual uphill, with a couple gradual downhills, two quite steep up hills, and one very steep downhill thrown in the middle. The past few I have made it a point to walk up the steep uphills and use gravity to my advantage for the rest of the…

Well, we're movin' on up (movin' on up) To the East Side! By the way, Nelly used these lyrics in a song the early 2000s. I only know this because I was in high school, and my boyfriend's twin brother at the time was very into Nelly's album Country Grammar. I remember hearing the song for the first time and being annoyed…

Well, after several days' rest, and my knee feeling perfectly fine since a couple hours after the 15K last Saturday, I decided to do a little test run on the treadmill (on an incline since Saturday's 5K is all hills). My knee didn't hurt, but it started to feel weird around 1.5 miles,, so I cut my run to 2 miles. I don't…

You are so right! We're the ones who are most likely to get lost! :smile:

Funny and related story - a few years ago, my boyfriend (a member of Fairmount Rowing Association on Boathouse Row in Philly) asked me to run the annual Schuylkill Navy Run on Thanksgiving. It's only open to Schuylkill Navy members and their invited guests. It is a small run of a couple hundred people, and the race has…

@greenolivetree & @shanaber: I find that my idea running temperature is in the low 60s. Unfortunately, those temperatures seem to be very hard to come by the past few years. We've been going from one extreme to another! I really need to move myself south! :smile:

I spent some time in State College when I went to Lock Haven in the early 2000s. :smile: Since Lock Haven is pretty much in the middle of nowhere, we would spend quite a bit of time in State College or WIlliamsport. I grew up about 20 miles from the original Yuengling brewery, so Yuengling is the beer of choice for many…

I think it is the entire northeast. I follow Northeastern University's men's rowing team (Boston, MA) on Facebook and they posted a bunch of photos yesterday of the guys rowing in the snow. I can't even imagine how awful that must have been! The race is the Yuengling Light Lager Jogger. This is it's fourth year for the…

I learned to embrace the treadmill a few years ago. I believe it was one of the best decisions of my life. I'm one of those people who is cold when it's 75 F. I also have sinus problems, and my sinuses, and subsequently my head, hurt so bad when I run in the cold, to me, it just isn't worth the torture. I am one of those…

Wow. That stinks! It is supposed to warm up here on Sunday, a little, but I'm not sure I can consider 42 degrees very warm, and definitely not warm enough for shorts running, even in the mid-afternoon. Good luck with the shorts. I really hope they don't give you any problems for the marathon. So...where's Spring? I'd like…

I've just read several posts about people running in nice/warm/hot weather, and I just wanted to let you all know that I am super jealous of wherever you live right now. When I woke up at 5:00am, it was 18 degrees F (approximately -8 C). It is now 8:06am, and it is only 19 F. It's supposed to stay pretty much above…

Well, that kind of stinks, but at least you have a diagnosis, which I'm sure is a relief and a huge step forward for you. Now they know what/how to treat! Best of luck. I'm glad you can still run!

That is quite the list of accomplishments! Good luck. I had the same struggle after doing just the Princess Half in February, but I seem to have found my groove, again. Sometimes, hitting the restart button and getting comfortable, again, is the best thing to do.

Congrats on the great accomplishment!

So awesome! Congratuations. You hit a huge milestone! I say there's no turning back from here. Find that race and conquer it!

I know you said you are friendly with your neighbors, but maybe a call to the local animal control or police is in order. What happened to Maggie is awful. To have it happen again to another one of your pets, one of their other dogs, or god forbid, one of you or a child would be 10 times worse.

Thanks, and thanks! :smile:

Thank you! Not even an hour after the race, while walking over to Federal Donuts in Philly (one of my favorite places in the world) for post-race lunch, my IT band randomly felt perfectly normal, again - the discomfort went away just as quickly as it came. I plan on foam rolling it a few times this week despite my absolute…

I am so, incredibly sorry to hear that. I would be absolutely heartbroken if anything happened to one of my two fur babies. :cry:

Well, I finished the Philadelphia Hot Chocolate 15K on Saturday. It wasn't nearly as cold and windy as it was last year, but it rained/drizzled a chilly rain for the duration of the race. I PRed the 15K distance by nearly 4 minutes, but it should have been more. My IT band started acting up, and I had to run/walk the last…

haha You're welcome! Thank you, and you're right - chocolate fondue does make everything okay! :smile:

Your puppy is adorable! Good luck with her! For all of those starting April on a rest day, I am doing the same thing, thanks to what might turn out to be a chilly, damp 15K tomorrow morning. The 15K is mostly down and back along West River Drive (AKA Martian Luther King Drive) that runs along the Schuylkill River in…